So I've been cruising through MySpace lately and I found a ton of old high school friends. Amongst them was one of my best female friends, who was a year younger than me, but she was always the girl who'd yell your name from across the hall and run up and give you a hug.

Awww.

Then I looked at some of her pictures. I can now say I know a Broncos Cheerleader, and not be lying to everyone to try and impress them! Her name has been protected, so don't try to go to their website and pick her out or anything.

It's funny. When I graduated, she had just started cheerleading that year, which was her junior year. It's just one of those "Hey, woah" type of things when you realize that someone you were friends with and didn't think of them as someone who would become a professional sportsteam cheerleader, especially football knowing the competition out there, it's kind of shocking.

Which reminds me, found an old friend from high school who actually did marry his crush from middle school, had two kids, and then ran off to Iraq as he's in the Marine Corp. with about 6 of his friends that he was in band with.

well that's fun. I went to high school with this girl that everyone thought was real hot but I was like, eh, she's stuck up and not THAT good looking. she went on to be in LL Cool J's "doin it" video and marry Deion Sanders. ok, I guess I was wrong.

That's pretty wild, KB. Using myspace, I found out that the first girl I ever called my girlfriend, forever ago in 3rd grade, became...
A) A really hot blonde chick (Plus!)
B) A conservative, aspiring country music singer (MAJOR MINUS! RED ALERT!)

She exchanged 2 myspace e-mails with me...and that was it. I found that really amusing.

I got you one up, Kicky. I went to school with Playboy's Miss February 2000, Suzanne Stokes. I crap you not. She was in 7th or 8th grade when I was a Senior, but it was a small school we went to so I saw her nearly every day. Kinda shy back then, I was surprised to find out recently that she posed for Playboy. Stranger things have happened, I guess.

There was a girl that I knew in passing, since I ran in a decidedly different social circle, that was a cheerleader when we were in junior high. She went on to do the same in high school. A few years later, I saw her on TV a few times during UT football games. I swear if she's not a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader by now, she's either still trying to get there or jumped off a cliff because the ten years she spent cheerleading didn't pan out.

I've never understood why a woman wanted to offer herself up like a piece of meat on a platter to the public. Don't get me wrong, I admit, I've got no problem looking (LOL) but after a certain point...can't you do something else with yourself? I mean in another 5-10 years, no one's going to want to see you jiggle. As Ron White said with a shudder..."Things that make you go bwuh!" Is there no self respect anymore? I can understand the old statement "if you've got it, flaunt it" but I also have a great deal of respect for women that are willing to share their beauty but keep it at a less than obscene level. You do not have to be half naked for us to enjoy your beauty and the natural work of art that you are. If you choose to be, that's on you, but I'd try and plead with you long enough to take some time and think about it before you shove your semi or fully naked ass up on a Jumbotron and have it transmitted across America.